Your Bio
Photography is not my full time job, I currently work in local goverment.
The first camera I ever picked up was an old Polaroid 660 it was around 1964. I didn't do much with it because it was my Dad's. In the early 70s, after having a fascination with television, I began using the family super 8 Kodak to shoot and edit film. In eighth grade I signed up for film making class. I could only take it one year so the next year I searched for an alternative and signed up for photography. My Dad got me the best camera we could afford, a used Asahi Pentax SP1000 which we found in a local pawn shop (I still the camera and lenses). As soon as I could save up I added a Vivitar 28mm, 200mm and a Braun RL515 flash. I was hooked.
Two years of filmmaking and four years of photography. In 1975, my journalism teacher entered one of my photos in the TAPPS (Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools) state competition. I didn’t know until she told me I should go on the trip to the competition. To my surprise it won 1st place in show. I entered again in 1976 and won again. In those same years I also won various awards in the TCIL (Texas Christian Interscholastic League) competition.
I credit those awards to a fantastic teacher, Othel O. Owensby a AP/UPI Houston Chronicle staff photographer. We were fortunate to have excellent darkroom facilities. He also taught us both sides of the business, news photography as well as the artistic aspect and how both can co-exist.
I replaced my SP1000 with a Canon Elan but it was stolen, so I made the choice to go digital and at the time started with a Sony but soon switched to a Canon Digital Rebel and it wasn't long till I had to move up to a 20D. Since then I have added a Canon EOS 1D Mark II and several Canon L lenses.
I was always frustrated not being able to have a darkroom, but now with Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom on a laptop and at home I can fine tune my images wherever I am.
The film making experience launched into the television business also. I have worked on television crews for local and national broadcast. Of course using the photography skills as a camera operator in a variety of jobs, studio, handheld and JIB operator. I have my own equipment for production, editing, and DVD creation.
I am proud to say my daughter has won several regional and state contests and she has a great eye.
What you see is unique, we all want the ability to capture a moment in time and share it with others in the future. Sharing is possible by drawing a likeness or you can describe in words but a photograph captures that moment in time and if the photographer has done his job well, the image will tell its own story.
Some will seek to determine what the photographer is trying to say, the inner meaning. However some photographs need only to be viewed, they speak for themselves.
The first camera I ever picked up was an old Polaroid 660 it was around 1964. I didn't do much with it because it was my Dad's. In the early 70s, after having a fascination with television, I began using the family super 8 Kodak to shoot and edit film. In eighth grade I signed up for film making class. I could only take it one year so the next year I searched for an alternative and signed up for photography. My Dad got me the best camera we could afford, a used Asahi Pentax SP1000 which we found in a local pawn shop (I still the camera and lenses). As soon as I could save up I added a Vivitar 28mm, 200mm and a Braun RL515 flash. I was hooked.
Two years of filmmaking and four years of photography. In 1975, my journalism teacher entered one of my photos in the TAPPS (Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools) state competition. I didn’t know until she told me I should go on the trip to the competition. To my surprise it won 1st place in show. I entered again in 1976 and won again. In those same years I also won various awards in the TCIL (Texas Christian Interscholastic League) competition.
I credit those awards to a fantastic teacher, Othel O. Owensby a AP/UPI Houston Chronicle staff photographer. We were fortunate to have excellent darkroom facilities. He also taught us both sides of the business, news photography as well as the artistic aspect and how both can co-exist.
I replaced my SP1000 with a Canon Elan but it was stolen, so I made the choice to go digital and at the time started with a Sony but soon switched to a Canon Digital Rebel and it wasn't long till I had to move up to a 20D. Since then I have added a Canon EOS 1D Mark II and several Canon L lenses.
I was always frustrated not being able to have a darkroom, but now with Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom on a laptop and at home I can fine tune my images wherever I am.
The film making experience launched into the television business also. I have worked on television crews for local and national broadcast. Of course using the photography skills as a camera operator in a variety of jobs, studio, handheld and JIB operator. I have my own equipment for production, editing, and DVD creation.
I am proud to say my daughter has won several regional and state contests and she has a great eye.
What you see is unique, we all want the ability to capture a moment in time and share it with others in the future. Sharing is possible by drawing a likeness or you can describe in words but a photograph captures that moment in time and if the photographer has done his job well, the image will tell its own story.
Some will seek to determine what the photographer is trying to say, the inner meaning. However some photographs need only to be viewed, they speak for themselves.
